Alumni
Graduates
Callum Blaney
MSc, Chemical and Environmental Toxicology
2022-2024. Biotransformation of PFAS in waste-water treatment plant sludge
Now: Job Searching
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Gursharan Uppal
MSc, Chemical and Environmental Toxicology
2022-2024. Characterizing PFAS in airborne particulate matter
Now: Job Searching
Colleen Clarke
MSc, Chemical and Environmental Toxicology
2019-2022. Development of a high-throughput oxidative stress assay to monitor lipid signaling and predict toxicity of emerging pollutants
Now: Principle Analyst, Gradient, Boston
Keegan Harris
MSc, Chemistry
2019-2022. Measuring PFAS in cosmetics and personal care products
Now: Associate Scientist, BRI Biopharmaceutical Research, Vancouver
Dami Daramola
MSc, Chemical and Environmental Toxicology
2019-2021. Enzyme phenotyping of fluorotelomer alcohol biotransformation
Now: Reseacher, Cronos Fermentation, Winnipeg
Sampson Fok
MSc, Chemical and Environmental Toxicology
2018-2020. Comparing PFAS toxicokinetics in human tissues and microbial environments
Now: Technical Scientist, CRO pharmaceutical company, Delaware
Selected undergraduates
Maxi Steinmetz
BSc (Nutritional Sciences), Justus Liebig University Giessen
2019. Maxi received an undergraduate summer exchange opportunity through the MITACS internship program. She researched the effect of pain-relieving drugs on altering omega-6 fatty acid metabolism.
Aleen Awais
BSc (Health Science), Carleton University
2018-2020. Aleen participated in summer research and was a recipient of I-CUREUS awards. She helped with the maintenance of C. elegans, our model for studying toxicant mechanisms of action.
Erin Lange
BScH (Chemistry), Carleton University
2018-2021. Erin did her Honours project and spent several summers with us, working to develop analytical and biochemical methods to measure fluorinated pollutants and their biological targets.
Sean Hargrave
BScH (Chemistry), Carleton University
2019. Sean synthesized 8 metabolites of fluorinated pollutants to serve as analytical standards and toxicant substrates in future projects.
Kali Deecker
BScH (Chemistry), Carleton University
2019-2020. Kali used computer modeling and LC-MS/MS to examine the metabolism of omega-6 fatty acids and how this can be modulated in the presence of aspirin.